Job Description
Job Mandate
Supports the Data Migration Lead for the Deposits Modernization Program by executing day-to-day data migration governance, validation, and reporting activities. Acts as a client-side analyst counterpart to the vendor's migration team. Supports verification of vendor-led profiling, extraction, transformation, loading, and reconciliation outputs to ensure accuracy, completeness, and auditability.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain and update migration workplan trackers (mock run schedule, environment data refresh plan, reconciliation checkpoints, cutover readiness checklist).
- Support requirements-to-data traceability: maintain source-to-target mapping tracker, transformation rule clarifications, and sign-off status across stakeholders.
- Perform data validation activities using agreed control framework (record counts, control totals, sample-based checks, exception analysis) against vendor outputs.
- Support reconciliation preparation and review (balance reconciliations, account-level variances, GL/SL tie-outs where applicable); document findings and follow up with owners.
- Manage defect and exception logs for data migration (capture issues, categorize root cause themes, track to closure, support evidence collation).
- Coordinate data-related SIT/UAT readiness: confirm test data availability, refresh requests, masking requirements (if applicable), and resolve data blockers with vendor/IT teams.
- Prepare artifacts and evidence for governance and auditability (mapping approvals, run results, reconciliation reports, sign-off packs, cutover runbooks attachments).
- Produce regular status updates and dashboards for the Data Migration Lead (progress, risks/issues, decisions needed, upcoming milestones).
- Support cutover activities and mock runs (checklist execution support, results collation, variance reporting, post-run lessons learned capture).
- Ensure adherence to BDO data security and access controls when handling extracts, files, and non-production data.
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Education
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Work Experience
- 5-8 years of experience in data analysis, system implementation support, testing support, or PMO/BA roles with strong data exposure (banking/financial services preferred).
- Experience supporting data migration, reconciliation, or test data activities is an advantage.
- Familiarity with core banking/deposits concepts (CASA/Time Deposit) is a plus.
- Experience with legacy-to-modern platform migrations (AS/400 to modern core banking, cloud-native or microservices architectures) is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with TCS, Finacle, or Fiserv platforms (at least two required)
Knowledge Area
- Data quality and validation concepts
- Working understanding of ETL concepts and migration lifecycle
- Understanding of banking data objects (customer/account, balances, product parameters, transaction history) and downstream impacts.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills; comfortable working with large datasets and spotting patterns/variances.
- Proficiency in SQL (preferred) and Excel; experience with data tools (e.g., Power BI) is a plus.
- Strong documentation discipline (logs, trackers, evidence packs) and attention to detail.
- Good communication skills to coordinate clarifications and follow-ups across IT, vendor, and business SMEs.
- Structured problem-solving and ability to summarize issues and impacts clearly.